Caffeine supplement helps lower lamb mortality by 21 per cent

Lucy Kinbacher
January 23 2019 - 4:30pm
A Charles Sturt University (CSU) team successfully trialled the oral supplementation of caffeine, a drug widely drunk by humans, during a paddock stud of grazing Merino ewes in 2016. Pictured is project leader Dr Susan Robertson.
A Charles Sturt University (CSU) team successfully trialled the oral supplementation of caffeine, a drug widely drunk by humans, during a paddock stud of grazing Merino ewes in 2016. Pictured is project leader Dr Susan Robertson.

RESEARCHERS behind a caffeine supplement that improved perinatal lamb mortality by 21 per cent are in the process of finding a commercial partner to make the product available to producers.

Lucy Kinbacher

Lucy Kinbacher

Editor - Queensland Country Life/North Queensland Register

Raised on a cattle property at Biggenden, Lucy Kinbacher has spent 10 years working across metropolitan, regional and rural publications in both Queensland and NSW. Lucy has been the editor of the Queensland Country Life and North Queensland Register since 2021.

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